CVE-2014-3122
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-05-11 21:00
Modified
2024-08-06 10:35
Severity ?
Summary
The try_to_unmap_cluster function in mm/rmap.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14.3 does not properly consider which pages must be locked, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by triggering a memory-usage pattern that requires removal of page-table mappings.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554c
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/59386Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/59599Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2926Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.3Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/01/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67162Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2240-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1093076Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/57e68e9cd65b4b8eb4045a1e0d0746458502554cPatch, Third Party Advisory
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